The Biggest Brexit Blunder?

Affecting millions both home and abroad

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It’s the usual Monday after the week before, where you wake up a bit lost, very tired and slightly achy. To be honest with you, this feeling actually started a day earlier, but that final bit of energy you need to make it back home pushes it all away until your head hits your pillow.

What am I on about? Any guesses?

I’ve just spent a week in Ireland with 40 teenagers from 4 different countries on a youth exchange. Each youth exchange is different, as the lead country puts their own stamp on it, but this one took place in the middle of nowhere, with sports activities galore, ranging from laser tag to kayaking and bog jumping. We also shared issues facing our countries, how we would like them to change and how they could change.

Of course, there was all the other drama that comes with having a group of clashing personalities alongside cultural and language misunderstandings and barriers. A lot of it. But if offered to do it again, I would always say yes.

Yes to the opportunity that someone learns something new, be it a word, a piece of food of a snippet of culture that they didn’t know before. That someone experiences something new, their first flight, seeing cars drive on the other side of the road or jumping in a peat bog. Or…